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Marquita Price outside her grandmother's house in East Oakland. She worries that contaminated rising groundwater threatens the health of her family and their assets.

Near Coasts, Rising Seas Could Also Push Up Long-Buried Toxic Contamination

Along some coastlines toxic contamination could seep into basements or broken sewage lines in coming years. In California's Bay Area, regulators are grappling with how to protect people.

Quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after leading theTampa Bay Buccaneers to Super Bowl victory against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

Tom Brady Leads Tampa Bay Buccaneers To Super Bowl Win Over Kansas City Chiefs 31-9

The Tampa Bay quarterback won his record seventh Super Bowl in his first season with the Buccaneers. Brady set a number of records including being the oldest ever to play in the championship.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, second from left, visit a preschool classroom at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago on Jan. 11. The district wants more in-person classes to resume next week; the teachers union wants to continue teaching remotely.

Chicago Teachers At Odds With District Over School Reopening

Chicago Public Schools leaders want in-person classes to resume. The teachers union says it is "not willing to accept the inevitable illness and death a reckless reopening will inflict on our city."

Attorney Luke Nikas examines fake Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock paintings.

Driven To Abstraction

Airs Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Demonstrators call for a union and $15 minimum wage at a McDonald's in Charleston, S.C., in February 2020. The U.S. Senate has voted to prohibit an increase in the federal minimum wage during the pandemic.

Senate Says No To $15 Minimum Wage For Now, But Democrats Vow To Push On

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 remains a priority of President Biden and Democrats after the Senate approved an amendment prohibiting a wage increase during the pandemic.

Demonstrators call for a union and $15 minimum wage at a McDonald's in Charleston, S.C. on Feb. 24, 2020. The U.S. Senate has voted to prohibit an increase in the federal minimum wage during the pandemic.

Senate Says No To $15 Minimum Wage For Now, But Democrats Vow To Push On

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 remains a priority of President Biden and Democrats after the Senate approved an amendment prohibiting a wage increase during the pandemic.

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA 51) in front of the Hall of Justice in downtown San Diego on Jan. 9, 2021, calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Rep. Juan Vargas Introduces Act To Ensure Dreamers Can Get Home Loans

The Homeownership for Dreamers Act, co-written with Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Redlands, is intended to clarify and protect the eligibility to receive home loans of DACA beneficiaries — also known as Dreamers.

A man getting the COVID-19 vaccine at the Grossmont Center Mall vaccination "super station" in La Mesa, Feb. 2, 2021.

San Diego County Opens 5th COVID-19 Vaccine 'Super Station' At UCSD

The vaccination site will operate inside the UCSD's Recreation, Intramural and Athletic Complex and will be the fifth such Vaccination Super Station in the county.

Sicknick's remains are placed next to a U.S. flag on a pedestal in the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday evening.

Lawmakers Honor Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick In Rotunda

President Biden joined Sicknick's family and colleagues from the Capitol Police Tuesday night. Sicknick was fatally injured while fending off a mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol complex.

Above: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots.

How The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex Workers

Many of them left rural areas to earn their living in the sex trade and send money home to help their families. COVID-19 restrictions have changed all that.

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